Yeah, hows the baby doing Crazy?

He has an auto Zack... always has and apparently always will since I failed to convince him otherwise :P :P

 

Yea, sometimes I miss the auto.
No worries about shifting wrong, or stalling out from a stop (had a big problem when I first got my Corolla, since it felt a lot different than the clutch in my Honda).

 

He has an auto.

That sucks man. I was afraid that mine would bite the dust....so while my truck isnt going anywhere for lack of transmission, at least I made some money from it.

We dont have AAMCO around here, but there was one up in Boise and the BOTCHED my buddies explorer transmission. Actually they botched it twice. They built it, it blew, they built it, it blew, they built it and he sold the truck.

And why the hell was the shop owner driving your truck anyway? Tell her to get in her freeking mercedes.

I cant help you on the transmission shopping, but if your looking at spending top coin why not look into one of the big "offroad" transmission builders. Maybe you can get a quality built tranny off there for what you could just a decent one locally.

 

You didnt fail, hes just got his reasons though im still trying to decide if i want to swap a manual when i do the 318 swap or put another auto in

 

Thats one thing I love about the manual in these trucks, the v8 has so much torque for the weight of the truck that you have to try if you want to stall it. The only time I stalled my truck was right after putting the 5 speed in and I forgot to take it out of gear while coming to a stop... it got down to about 150 rpm before it finally stopped.

 

In the Honda Civic I had in high school, you had to HOLD it in first gear accelerating from a stop (otherwise it would pop out of gear) I remember before I figured that out, being at a 4-way stop, and there was traffic waiting on my as I lurched forward, stalled, lurched forward, stopped.... I was embarrased!

For other transmission suggestions, I know a lot of Ram guys tout:
APS http://www.apsprecision.com/OEMTransmission.html
Dr. Evil http://www.dreviltransmissions.com/home.html

 

The baby is doing good! She is 7 months. Starting to crawl, talk, laughs at everything you do. It is great! The only bad thing is to busy usually to do more to the truck.

I had a manual in my TA. But since it is a drag strip car I riped it out. Does anyone know any other nation wide chains that are good?

I have heard of the Phoenix ones but thats way to high plus shipping and waiting. But I will look for close HD shops. I'm not to sure if we ever talked about swapping in a 48rh. I think only on the v10s and Diesel's. I'm sure it don't work. Does anyone know?

 

I would think the bolt pattern is wrong. Advance adapters?

 

I've never heard of the 48rh, I thought they just went up to the 47rh. That is a very good question though. I would assume if the v10s have the same bellhousing bolt pattern as the v8 that it should work just fine. I'm not familiar enough with them to be able to tell you for sure though.

 

Ya after a quick look around it is 47rh.